[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Mount Pleasant 3-25-1969
as Ch. 33 of the 1969 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in the
concentration of any given constituent or in the quantity of flow, exceeds,
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the
average twenty-four-hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
A.
No person shall discharge or cause the discharge of any
harmful or deleterious substance to any public sanitary sewer or sewage disposal
system so as to endanger the use of or the materials of construction of such
sewer or the sewage treatment plant or system or so as to result in the stoppage
or other failure of the sewerage system or subsequent sewage treatment.
B.
The town and all users of the town sanitary sewer system
shall be subject to all applicable rules and regulations in the Westchester
County Environmental Facilities Sewer Ordinance No. 1, as amended.
[Added 5-26-1982]
No person shall throw or deposit or cause to be thrown or deposited
into any drain, catch basin, sewer or gutter within the town any substance
which may cause obstruction or injury thereto or nuisance therein. It shall
also be unlawful for any person to divert or stop the flow of any drain or
sewer.
The owner of any habitable building or property used for human occupancy,
employment, recreation or other purpose, abutting upon any street or right-of-way
in which there is located a public sanitary sewer, shall be required to install,
at the expense of such owner, suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect
such facilities directly with the public sanitary sewer by means of a sewer
spur provided by the town or by a new connection installed as specified in
this chapter if a town spur is not available, all as directed by the Town
Board, within 90 days after the date of an order, in writing, issued by the
Town Board to so do, provided that such sewer is within 200 feet of any property
line of such premises and is otherwise accessible.
A.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any
stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage,
uncontaminated cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters to any
sanitary sewer.
B.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be
discharged to storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the Town Engineer
or House Sewer Inspector. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters
may be discharged, on approval of the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector,
to a storm sewer or natural outlet.
C.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any
of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
(1)
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable
or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
(2)
Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids,
liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with
other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute
a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance or create any hazard
in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, including but not limited
to cyanides in excess of two milligrams per liter as CN in the wastes as discharged
to the public sewer.
(3)
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or having
any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures,
equipment and personnel of the sewerage works.
(4)
Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such
size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference
with the proper operation of the sewerage works, such as, but not limited
to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers,
tar, plastics, wood, ungrounded garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair
and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either
whole or ground by garbage grinders.
D.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the
following described substances, materials, waters or waste if it appears likely
in the opinion of the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector that such wastes
can harm either the sewers, sewage treatment process or equipment, have an
adverse effect on the receiving stream or can otherwise endanger life, limb,
property or constitute a nuisance. In forming his opinion as to the acceptability
of these wastes, the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector will give consideration
to such factors as the quantities of subject wastes in relation to flows and
velocities in the sewers, materials of construction of the sewers, nature
of the sewage treatment process, capacity of the sewage treatment plant, degree
of treatability of wastes in the sewage treatment plant and other pertinent
factors. The substances prohibited are:
(1)
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than
150° F. (54° C.).
(2)
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease or oils,
whether emulsified or not, in excess of 100 milligrams per liter, or containing
substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32°
F. and 150° F. (0° C. and 65° C.).
(3)
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The
installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a motor of
3/4 horsepower (0.76 horsepower metric) or greater shall be subject to the
review and approval of the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector.
(4)
Any waters or wastes containing strong acid iron-pickling
wastes or concentrated plating solutions, whether neutralized or not.
(5)
Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper,
zinc and similar objectionable or toxic substances or wastes exerting an excessive
chlorine requirement, to such degree that any such material received in the
composite sewage at the sewage treatment works exceeds the limits established
by the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector for such materials.
(6)
Any waters or waste containing phenols or other taste-
or odor-producing substances in such concentrations exceeding limits which
may be established by the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector as necessary,
after treatment of the composite sewage, to meet the requirements of the state,
federal or other public agencies of jurisdiction for such discharge to the
receiving waters.
(7)
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life
or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Town Engineer or
House Sewer Inspector in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
(8)
Any waters or wastes having a pH in excess of 9.5.
(9)
Materials which exert or cause:
(a)
Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids (such
as, but not limited to, fuller's earth, lime slurries and lime residues)
or of dissolved solids (such as, but not limited to, sodium chloride and sodium
sulfate).
(b)
Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited to,
dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions).
(c)
Unusual BOD, chemical oxygen demand or chlorine requirements
in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage treatment
works.
(d)
Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes constituting
slugs, as defined herein.
(10)
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not
amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed
or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment
plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction
over discharge to the receiving waters.
E.
Disposition of wastes.
(1)
If any waters or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in Subsection D of this section and which, in the judgment of the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector, may have a deleterious effect upon the sewerage works, processes, equipment or receiving waters or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector may:
(a)
Reject the wastes;
(b)
Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for discharge
to the public sewers;
(c)
Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge;
and/or
(d)
Require payment to cover the added cost of handling and
treating the wastes not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges.
(2)
If the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector permits
the pretreatment or equalization of waste flows, the design and installation
of the plants and equipment shall be subject to the review and approval of
the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector and subject to the requirements
of all applicable codes, ordinances and laws.
F.
Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when,
in the opinion of the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector, they are necessary
for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts
or any flammable wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients, except that such
interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling
units. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the Town
Engineer or House Sewer Inspector and shall be located as to be readily and
easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
G.
Where preliminary treatment or flow-equalizing facilities
are provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously
in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner at his expense.
H.
When required by the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector,
the owner of any property serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial
wastes shall install a suitable control manhole, together with such necessary
meters and other appurtenances, in the building sewer to facilitate observation,
sampling and measurement of the wastes. Such manhole, when required, shall
be accessibly and safely located and shall be constructed in accordance with
the plans approved by the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector. The manhole
shall be installed by the owner at his expense and shall be maintained by
him so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
I.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics
of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this chapter shall be determined
in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, and shall
be determined at the control manhole provided or upon suitable samples taken
at said control manhole. In the event that no special manhole has been required,
the control manhole shall be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole
in the public sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected.
Sampling shall be carried out by customarily accepted methods to reflect the
effect of constituents upon the sewerage works and to determine the existence
of hazards to life, limb and property. (The particular analyses involved will
determine whether a twenty-four-hour composite of all outfalls of a premises
is appropriate or whether a grab sample or samples should be taken. Normally,
but not always, BOD and suspended solids analyses are obtained from twenty-four-hour
composites of all outfalls, whereas pH's are determined from periodic
grab samples.)
All connections to the sanitary sewers in the Town of Mount Pleasant
shall conform to the following requirements:
A.
Before any work is commenced, an application for a connection permit shall be filed with the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector on a form provided by him for that purpose, accompanied by an application fee as set forth in Chapter A224, Fees, and a connection permit issued by the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector shall be obtained therefor.
[Amended 6-22-1982[1]]
B.
All work shall be performed by or under the immediate
supervision of a plumber duly licensed by the Town of Mount Pleasant. The
person so licensed to make such connection or opening shall comply with and
be responsible for the following:
(2)
No obstruction of any description whatever shall be left
in the connection.
(3)
Unless otherwise approved by the Town Engineer or House
Sewer Inspector, a minimum separation of three feet on centers shall be maintained
between the house sanitary connection and the house water service, and the
waterline shall be at an elevation 18 inches higher than the sewer line if
laid within 10 feet of the sewer line.
(4)
Any damage or injuries that may accrue to persons, animals
or property by reason of any opening in any street or right-of-way made by
them or those in their employ.
(5)
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify
the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector a minimum of 24 hours prior to
when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public
sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of a plumber licensed
by the Town of Mount Pleasant. No work shall be covered until inspected by
the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector or his representative. All excavations
for building sewer installations shall be adequately guarded with barricades
and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Proper shoring shall be
provided where necessary to avoid cave-ins into trench excavations. At time
of connections to a public sewer, any septic tanks, cesspools and similar
private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned, pumped out and filled
with suitable inert material. Under no circumstances shall said sanitary waste
material be disposed of into town sanitary sewers.
(6)
All excavations shall be refilled and the earth rammed
and the pavement taken up shall be suitably restored, and should it settle
or become out of order within 12 months thereafter and the owner or plumbing
contractor shall neglect to repair the pavement aforesaid within 24 hours
after being notified, the Town Superintendent of Highways may cause the same
to be done and charge the expense thereof to such licensee.
(7)
Each permit shall have endorsed thereon the contents
of § 149 of the Highway Law of the State of New York, and the licensee
and owner of the land benefited by the sewer connection shall be deemed to
have accepted such permit or the issuance of the same on the condition that
there will be full compliance with the provisions of said section and that
such persons will be bound thereby.
C.
The line running from the house or other building to
the sanitary sewer shall be of not less than four inches extra-heavy cast
iron and shall be thoroughly caulked and joined with first-quality lead and
oakum. Unless loading conditions as determined by the Town Engineer or House
Sewer Inspector warrant additional pipe strength, it shall be permissible
to use asbestos-cement building sewer pipe in lengths not to exceed five feet
in lieu of extra-heavy cast iron pipe, provided that such pipe shall have
a crushing strength of at least 1,500 pounds per linear foot when tested in
accordance with ASTM designation C-14, three-edge bearing method. Such pipe
shall not be laid directly on a rock base but shall be cushioned by a minimum
four-inch-thick layer of clean sand.
E.
Each building other than accessory buildings incidental
to the principal building or structure on each parcel of property shall have
a separate connection with the sewer, except that in the case of real estate
developments containing one or more private streets supplied with lateral
sewers privately constructed, each building other than accessory buildings
incidental to the principal building or structure on each parcel of property
shall have a separate connection either with such lateral sewer or with the
town sewer. Any such lateral sewer privately constructed shall be constructed
in accordance with the standards of this chapter and shall be properly maintained
at all times.
Any person who shall violate or fail, neglect or refuse to comply with
any provision of this chapter or any rule. regulation, order or special direction
duly made thereunder shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine
of not more than $250 or by imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment, and each week such violation shall continue shall
constitute a separate offense.
This chapter shall be enforced by the Town Engineer or House Sewer Inspector.
